I was looking through some old books and found a couple of pages of songwriting notes from many years ago. As I read over them, I was taken by this phrase: the syntax of the cynic. I picked up the phrase and here is what I found.

watch your language

In the grammar of grace,Love rules as a run-on sentence,filled with particles by peacesemi-colons of hope,clauses of community,and fundaments of forgiveness.

While the syntax of the cynic depends on dangling doubt off of fragments of falsehood,sight lines modified by sarcasm,and phrases fraught with ruinand interjections of judgment.